Is that the beginning of another,Top-Left..or is that just bleed from the Sun?

Quoting: Spittin'Cesium

It's either part of the same blast or the lingering remnants of the previous one. It's getting hard to keep track; there's been 2 or 3 back-side eruptions but I've just been focusing on the near-side. As NIN just noted, the data/images have been spotty all the way around this weekend. I'm still waiting for SOHO to fill in the missing 5 hours when we had the M-flare. I guess they're saving that work for the weekday crew, LOL. The problem is that most of the CME models and forecasts rely primarily on SOHO for data. I was very surprised to see the NASA CME cygnet model come out w/o a SOHO update.

Recent images from SDO show a giant incandescent light bulb over region 1429. It even looks like it has a threaded screw-base. Weird, but true.

Imagine how confusing this will be if we get 2 or 3 spots this size or bigger.

Quoting: Hugh M Eye

You all are doing great work staying up on this... I'm watching from my phone...sick to say but i am anxious to go to work tomorrow so i can get caught up...could be a crazy week no doubt....thanks again for the udates everybody...

Is any of this recent solar activity something to worry about? Or just exciting stuff to track for "suntards". I see a lot of posts but not sure what any of it means.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2405841

No, I don't think there's anything to worry about at this time. If you own or depend on satellites, you might want to worry just a little bit. But keep checking back 'cause someday there may be something to really worry about. This is why we watch.... of course, as you said, it's exciting,too :)

Is any of this recent solar activity something to worry about? Or just exciting stuff to track for "suntards". I see a lot of posts but not sure what any of it means.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2405841

No, I don't think there's anything to worry about at this time. If you own or depend on satellites, you might want to worry just a little bit. But keep checking back 'cause someday there may be something to really worry about. This is why we watch.... of course, as you said, it's exciting,too :)

Quoting: Hugh M Eye

Thanks for the response. I constantly see this thread on the first page because of all the updates and I look at the replies but most of the time it is all jibberish to me. I know one day there will be a HUGE event, which is one reason why I constantly click on this thread and I'm thinking - oh no - is this it??? My hope is that all of you with this immense knowledge of what's going on will warn people on GLP with a new thread when you get concerned.

By the way, the basketball game I was watching this afternoon went out for about 5 minutes (I have cable, not dish, but know they get programming through satellites). The scroll on the bottom said it was from a "natural sun event" and programming would resume "shortly..." I know this is somewhat common so it did not scare me but then I saw this thread and all the recent posts and it got me thinking "uh oh" Glad it's nothing (for now)!